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hello all
Am a newbie but "almost" started a course for CompTIA A+ then MCDST will keep checking this forum as it appears to have some very good advice/information on it - well done to all.

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Before you sign up to Computeach you should really get your hands on this first http://tinyurl.com/56fwp7 and save yourself a fortune and if you still need the extra training then sign up with them.

I wouldn't sign up with them at all. CompTIA A+ can be achieved by spending a fraction of what computeach would charge you. There are plenty of folks on here that will help you if you get stuck.

How much IT experience do you have?

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I suppose I would say I am more than a novice - know XP pretty well / built one PC OK but its all "self taught" thats the problems do stuff for family & friend only. Am also the wrong side of fifty so the brain isn't as fast as it used to be haha!!

thanks now you have really got me thinking a little clearer ( thank goodness ) Am cancelling my enrolment to computeach - I must need my head testing all that money..am going to look at the self teach wayCannot thank you enough -many many thanks you may have saved me from a fate worse that death..ta

thanks now you have really got me thinking a little clearer ( thank goodness ) Am cancelling my enrolment to computeach - I must need my head testing all that money..am going to look at the self teach wayCannot thank you enough -many many thanks you may have saved me from a fate worse that death..ta

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I made the mistake of going with them a few years ago managed to get out of it after i had started still had to pay about £100 just to get rid, Im now about to start Comptia A+ through Angus college which is an online course and costs £250, £200 of wich i got from the ILA so its only costing me £50 of my own money.

Flying Finn - I was faced with a similar decision to go with a learning provider. After getting more information and reading loads of advice from posts on here I decided that I should go for self study.
A+ then MCDST and then ....?
I look forward to seeing how you get on over the next few months and compare with my progress.

I suppose I would say I am more than a novice - know XP pretty well / built one PC OK but its all "self taught" thats the problems do stuff for family & friend only. Am also the wrong side of fifty so the brain isn't as fast as it used to be haha!!

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If you can self teach yourself that, you can self teach yourself the A+... or for that matter, ANY subject in IT. Congrats on choosing self-study.

It's downright heartening to see how posters here encourage people to have faith in their own ability. To have the confidence to take control, build their own skill-sets. Rather than just believing we gotta be payday to some training provider's sales team, in order to have their 'specialists' build our skills up for us. It's empowering. It's uplifting. It's... (what's the opposite of disillusion?!)... illusioning!?!

I... I'd better get out of here before I entirely lose my characteristic misanthropy and cynicism. (My friends would probably kill me assuming I had been replaced by a sinister clone.)

thanks just so glad I found this forum ...I'll let you know how it goes, how ar you finding it?

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Just finished the 24th and last chapter of the A+ AIO book on the first recommended read through-
It's taken just over a month and I've averaged just over 8/10 on the chapter review questions.
I'm waiting for my toolkit and ESD wriststrap to arrive via ebay and then I'm going to alternate hands on chapters from Streetsmarts with notetaking and consolidated learning from AIO again.
Exams booked for early October

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